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Sustainable development goals: Modernizing civil service
By Vivek Pattanayak*
Goal sixteen of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals says to “promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to development, justice for all and build effective…
The sinister memory of supersession of judges
By Prof Satya Narayan Misra*
On this date 49 years ago, three judges of the Supreme Court viz. Shelat, Hegde & Grover submitted their resignation as justice N Roy who was junior to them was appointed on 25thApril as the new CJI of…
Unravelling Sri Lankan crisis
By Dr. Santosh Kumar Mohapatra*
Sri Lanka, the island nation in the Indian Ocean has plunged into one of the worst economic crises it’s ever seen since its independence in 1948. The country’s 2.2 crore people are facing crippling 12-hour…
Role of Supreme Court in stemming rising communalism in India
By Prof Satya Narayan Misra*
The historian Bipan Chandra defined communalism as a byproduct of socio, economic phenomena. It appears when people try to combat socio economic problems without knowing the real reasons. For Ashis Nandy, the…
The judgement that transformed India
By Professor Satya Narayan Misra*
Forty-six years ago, in the summer of 1976 and height of Emergency, four judges of the Supreme Court had viewed that a person has no right to appeal against unlawful detention when the state was in…
The digital divide in education: The way forward
By Prof Satya Narayan Misra*
There is increasing attention to reduce Urban Rural upheavals in education and find ways and means to provide adequate funding by government, corporates and through PPP model. The prolonged pandemic has not…
Civil Service: Its ‘elite status’
By Vivek Pattanayak*
A modern State needs a civil service. In addition to other institutions of government like executive consisting of President, Prime Minister, Ministers etc., legislature and judiciary government must have a permanent…
Capacity, autonomy & venality: The larger challenges of the Civil Services
By Prof Satya Narayan Misra, IES, PhD*
Mr. Duvvuri Subbarao, previously RBI Governor, has stirred a hornet’s nest by calling the IAS elitist, self-serving, perpetuating a set of bureaucrats who are out of touch with reality and wallow in…
Throwing the Baby with the Bath Water
By Prof. (Dr.) Satya Narayan Misra*
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his independence address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on 15th August 2014 declared the demise of the Planning Commission, a 64 years old institution founded on…
Has IAS failed the nation?
By Vivek Pattanayak*
For quite some time it has been quite a favourite pastime of some writers, critics, columnists, civil servants, and more particularly retired IAS officers to run down the Indian Administrative Service, so-called…